David Avraham ben Hazub, Exilarch 'Rab David II', haSofer b'Pumbeditha - NB to Researchers: yDNA Conflict

Adam,
I'm so sorry but genetic tests did not reveal King David's descendants unique Y-DNA signature. Each families Shaltiel, Dayan, Benveniste, Charlap have their own male progenitors in the root.

Hello Andrew, No worries. It has been a wonderful experience nevertheless. Can you please post the the URLS for the end persons in the Dayan and Benveniste lines? I am not familiar with how these two lines are also connected to the root. Thanks and Congratulations on a Job Well Done!

PS: I found the root of the Dayan line: Josiah al-Hasan ben Zakkai, who is the brother of the David Avraham ben Hazub mentioned in yesterday's first post. According to what I can understand, the Dayan hg is R1a1a-M198 (via: Eliyahu אליהו Halevi Dayan). One can already conclude that the Dayan's R1a1a designation is not near enough to the Charlap's R1b1a designation to confirm a common Davidic ancestor. I am still looking for the Benveniste root.

Hi Adam,
The end person you found is of HaLevy family. Y-DNA results also confirmed that. This Israeli family was originally Kitaygorodsky from Ukraine. Someone dropped out this fact from the articles in English and joined the profiles to the Dayans of Aleppo...
I'm in contact with real Dayans and even took part in their DNA testing. They are indeed all R-M198 but from other subclade:

https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Sephardic_heritage/default.asp...

Thanks Andrew. One more line which a legendary descent from the David-Exilarch root is the Abravanel family (Don Isaac Abarbanel). I am not aware of any descendants (confirmed or speculated, yDNA tested or not) from the Don Isaac tree. If there are any please let me know.

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As far as I know, I am a descendant of Don Yitzhak Abarbanel, but I have no idea how, and whether it is through my grandmother or grandfather,
If there is a list of offspring, I may be able to find out how I am his offspring

I forgot to mention that it's through my dad's side, but I do not know which of his parents were the descendants, and how

Was able to locate a Benveniste tree with roots in the David-Exilarch tree: Yosef "Cidellus" ibn Ferruzi'el, Nasi of Toledo, Vizier, Lt of El Cid. I am not able to confirm whether there are any current patriline descendants of this Benveniste tree.

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Here too I may have information: According to the father of a cousin (5) I found,
my g.grandfather(5):
rabbi Yaakov Azriel (zelig) Raychert
was descendant Of families:Benvenisti, karo and vital
According to her father, the family was one of the deportees from Spain who moved to Bavaria, in the village of Reichert, and changed their last name to Reichert.

Thanks Haim. I will add your info to the file.

David Avraham ben Hazub, Exilarch 'Rab David II', haSofer b'Pumbeditha is your 16th cousin 41 times removed.

Don Isaac Abarbanel is your second cousin 15 times removed's husband's brother's wife's first cousin once removed.

Shortest blood relationship
Don Isaac Abarbanel is your 8th cousin 14 times removed.

Shortest in-law relationship:

Don Isaac Abarbanel is your fourth cousin 17 times removed's wife's first cousin once removed.

Shortest blood relationship:

Don Isaac Abarbanel is your 9th cousin 15 times removed.

Antonio Silveira Marques is your 19th cousin thrice removed.